Abstract This is the first of two articles on the political economy of attaining Universal Primary Education (UPE) (in sub-Saharan Africa. It explores three key sets of factors which are powerfully influencing the degree to which the UPE goal is likely to be attained in SSA. These are the rapid emergence of new social class relations which are closely related to key educational developments in many countries, (in particular the rapid growth of higher education and private schooling provision) and the overall demand for primary education and especially the intensifying competition for jobs in the formal sector. This provides the essential contextual background for the second paper which draws on political settlement analysis to explore the politics of UPE in SSA and, in particular, the level of elite political commitment for the attainment of UPE.

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在撒哈拉以南非洲实现普及初等教育的政治经济学：社会阶级再生产、教育距离和工作竞争

摘要 这是关于实现普及初等教育 (UPE)（在撒哈拉以南非洲）的政治经济学的两篇文章中的第一篇。它探讨了三组关键因素，这些因素对 UPE 目标可能实现的程度有很大影响。在 SSA 中，新的社会阶层关系迅速出现，这与许多国家的关键教育发展（尤其是高等教育和私立学校教育的快速增长）以及对小学教育的总体需求，特别是日益加剧的教育密切相关。这为第二篇论文提供了必要的背景背景，该论文利用政治解决分析来探讨 SSA 中 UPE 的政治，特别是实现 UPE 的精英政治承诺水平。